That's why Lindsey Vonn feels certain she can be as good as ever — or better — by the time the Sochi Olympics begin next year, even though the injuries she sustained in a Feb. 5 crash at the world championships in Austria were the most serious of a career filled with them.

"I'm not necessarily more worried about this injury than others," she said Friday in a conference call. "It's just more severe than I've had in the past."

In her first comments since Feb. 10 surgery to repair torn anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments, Vonn criticized race officials for letting the fateful Super-G go on after a two-hour delay caused by fog that softened and loosened the snow. Vonn, who started 19th, thinks the conditions were unsafe.

While lying on the snow after the crash, Vonn called U.S. coach Alex Hoedelmoser, a member of the officials' jury, to tell him they should stop the race.

Yet Slovenia's Tina Maze, who had started just before Vonn, won it. The two skiers immediately after Vonn failed to finish, but the next, Julia Mancuso of the U.S., won the bronze medal. Only one of the seven who followed Mancuso — before the race eventually was stopped — failed to finish.

Vonn blamed the loose, soft snow for losing control as she landed from a jump.